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Age-Structured Harvesting Models: A Structural Comparison of Rate-Control and Effort-Control Optimality Systems

Jiguang Yu·Louis Shuo Wang·Ye Liang
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We study optimal harvesting in continuous-time, age-structured population models of McKendrick--von Foerster type, and we compare two harvesting mechanisms. In the \emph{rate-control} formulation, harvesting enters the state equation as an additive removal term; in the \emph{effort-control} formulation, harvesting acts multiplicatively as an additional mortality intensity and the mortality coefficient depends on the aggregate stock. For the rate-control problem we first establish existence of an optimal control for the infinite-horizon discounted problem, and we then derive, \emph{under explicitly stated regularity and constraint-qualification assumptions}, a conditional Pontryagin-type necessary optimality system consisting of the adjoint equation, the terminal-age and transversality conditions, the switching relations for the distributed and boundary controls, and the complementary-slackness relation for the state constraint. For the effort-control problem we \emph{formally} derive the associated adjoint equation and identify the nonlocal coupling term generated by aggregate (density) dependence, with the sign of that term verified by a step-by-step variational computation; a rigorous infinite-horizon maximum principle for this nonlinear, nonlocally coupled problem is beyond the present scope and is stated as such. We complement the analysis with autonomous stationary reductions, with explicit representations of the state and adjoint, and with a reproducible numerical study. The central message is structural: the harvesting mechanism is not a cosmetic modelling choice. Rate-control produces an additive/affine/local optimality structure, whereas effort-control produces a multiplicative/nonlinear/nonlocal one, with direct consequences for persistence, stationary profiles, and bioeconomic interpretation.

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Jiguang Yu, Louis Shuo Wang, Ye Liang. 2026-09-01. Age-Structured Harvesting Models: A Structural Comparison of Rate-Control and Effort-Control Optimality Systems. https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09767

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